1. Personality Psychology
Erik Erikson

2. History Erik Erikson Born: Frankfurt, Germany, on June 15, 1902.
Died May 12, 1994 in Harwich, MA
Family: His biological father was an unnamed Danish man who abandoned Erik's mother before he was born. His mother, Karla Abrahamsen, was a young Jewish woman who raised him alone for the first three years of his life. She then married Dr. Theodor Homberger, who was Erik's pediatrician, and moved to Karlsruhe in southern Germany.
He married Joan Serson, a Canadian dance teacher and had three children. .

3. History
Career
He studied art and a variety of languages during his school years, rather than science courses such as biology and chemistry. He did not prefer the atmosphere that formal schooling produced, so instead of going to college he traveled around Europe, keeping a diary of his experiences. After a year of doing this, he returned to Germany and enrolled in art school.
Erikson started off being an art teacher and earned Montessori education certificate. He taught children of Americans who had come to Vienna for Freudian training. He was then admitted into the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. He graduated from the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute in Also that year, he settled in Boston and began work in private practice and at Harvard. It was at this time in his life that he was psychoanalyzed by Anna Freud herself.

4. Concepts Epigenetic Principle Psychosocial Crises Timing Virtues
Maladaptations/Malignancies

5. Stage (age)
Psychosocial crisis
Significant relations
Psychosocial modalities
Psychosocial virtues
Maladaptations & malignancies
I (0-1) -- infant
trust vs mistrust
mother
to get, to give in return
hope, faith
sensory distortion -- withdrawal
II (2-3) -- toddler
autonomy vs shame and doubt
parents
to hold on, to let go
will, determination
impulsivity -- compulsion
III (3-6) -- preschooler
initiative vs guilt
family
to go after, to play
purpose, courage
ruthlessness -- inhibition
IV (7-12 or so) -- school-age child
industry vs inferiority
neighborhood and school
to complete, to make things together
competence
narrow virtuosity -- inertia
V (12-18 or so) -- adolescence
ego-identity vs role-confusion
peer groups, role models
to be oneself, to share oneself
fidelity, loyalty
fanaticism -- repudiation
VI (the 20’s) -- young adult
intimacy vs isolation
partners, friends
to lose and find oneself in a another
love
promiscuity -- exclusivity
VII (late 20’s to 50’s) -- middle adult
generativity vs self-absorption
household, workmates
to make be, to take care of
care
overextension -- rejectivity
VIII (50’s and beyond) -- old adult
integrity vs despair
mankind or “my kind”
to be, through having been, to face not being
wisdom
presumption -- despair